I personally found it terrible. It didn't completely fit in the small window I opened it in at first (the "scroll down" text was not visible), and when I made it full screen, most of the screen was just white (and the flying elements weren't even hidden outside the actual view area). If you scroll it with the mouse wheel, or spacebar, it just looks ugly. It didn't even advice you to scroll in the right way.
"Apps that link to external mechanisms for purchases or subscriptions to be used in the app, such as a “buy" button that goes to a web site to purchase a digital book, will be rejected"
Well, this didn't seem to bother investors since they've just raised $10m. They've got enough cash to figure out what'll come next if Facebook comments gain too much market share.
I don't think investors would be scared off by such a post alone BUT for the record the post was made AFTER they raised $10m dollars so your point isn't really valid.
My point was simply to say "this type of post is meant to reassure people of the company's stability and, at least in the case of me, it has the opposite effect because it's so often used by companies who are perceived as desperate. So maybe it's a strategy that should be reevaluated."
Finally I don't really consider a $10m investment as validation one way or the other. In my mind, and again this is my opinion, an $80m investment means "we think this company will succeed". A $10m investment is more like "we think these are smart people who could beat the odds but we don't want to commit to many resources to this"
> BUT for the record the post was made AFTER they raised $10m dollars so your point isn't really valid.
Don't you think people writing a $10mm check did way more due diligence than anyone reading this blog post could? They had to believe everything that was (going to be) in this blog post and much, much more.
